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i.ii''_it i Ai:: 1 3 A.k4:4 - t-.oit; .:1- HO USE OF PEERS: • • . , MONDAY, MARCH 19; _.. . ~_ • ,- ‘_Connsei. was again heard in the Appeal,..Master! 7 t on - ir, • Meeitlejohn. A ,f urther hearing on Wed nesday m i xt . . ,THE ARMY, Lord DARNLEY gave notice, that on Thursday next he should, submit a motion to their Lordships, respetting the number of Regular Troops, Cavalry, and Infantry, sent out from this country since the, tnontla of September last. THE NAVY. - • L7rd'Met.triLLE - moved for a number . of Papers which he expeded.would throw light on, and ascer tain the present sate of every thing couneded with :the Navy,- and afford grounds for many improve -I'letits in that Most important branch of tne national' defence.: His first , motion was for a return of the tittinber of sock-yards, in the. kingdom, the number 41 docks each Contained; the number - of ships each duck contained, distinguishing how many there .'titre of the: first class, and the different rates of the liifrrior ships. . The Noble Viscount next moved for an account el the numbei, of skii.s in'each dock, distinguishing f or what-classes : and. rates of ships they ,'were -de bigned. • 111 5 Lordship, after several other *motions to the :,satire erreCt, Moved for an'account of number of artificers employed in eSch clock-yard; distinguisio• ing ttie number of those. who :were employed en • new winks. - The Duke. of .Nbapoeic did not conceive it be . v "ry proper to ,produce suchinioute bafOrmation re- SPeo`ting.the state of the Navy. He thought it ra- tier unusual to move - for-Such a number of doeu :kents, without any statement auk motives and the objects for which they - were moved. - Beptdes, he did n o t -oonsid:fr it Is' very. prudent to lay betore the world a circumstantial detail of the state of the , -Navy ; and he was 'rather surprised that the sr oble 'Lord at the head of the Adthiraliy- had made no Lib '. iection to the- - Production-ot Ahem. • ' • - Lord MvLGaavE confessed that he was ignorant of the motives and: ends Which-:induced the 'Noble. Vilcount to move - for such detailed information. - He had consulted with:himself - if such-a thing' was un- Usual, and found - -there was a precedent for it in • 1 8 06 or 1806, when a Noble Lord (Darnley) moved - tor nearly as many. documen ts. respecting the state of the Navy, preparatory to a Motion .with regard to The necessity. of - building ships of war. in the mer thaots' yards. Hiving that precedent •in .his eye, And being - desirous to afford the, Noble Viscount •etery information his power, and trusting ro the tiscretion with which he was . , sole the Noble Vis ount would use -it, lie- felt a-iehiCtatice'tciinake, a ny Opposition to the motions of the Noble*Vis‘ count. - • •' The Duke Of NOR . Foi.ic and Lord MELvit.t.ri mtii tOally explained - . - Lord Gaav- did not imagine there could be any 14 anget in acceding to the motionsof the Noble Vis ., Count. Such motions evinced . a vigilant anxiety on the part of that House respecting every, thiog eon . neaed with such-an essential part of - our establish .rterits as the Navy, nor 'could the producticin of 11 3cli a ccounts b e dangerous, *as 'conveying improper i nformation to the e`nemy: The enemy - might have ih .234alac. .0,o,• .'*night have it frora,Steel's Monthly List. Neither; - - was it necessary to be guided by any .precedent in ' the produCtion of sochiiofortnatioo.. A case might . arid where there was no pr,ecedent for the produ6 , ' thin of tertian) information which might still be of a nature the most-urgently to require. the' minutest infornaation, and in itself to justify ihe produuion Of it. The. Noble Viscount 'Ad made many mo tions, the 'object of which seemed to be to ascer tain ie state of the dock-yards, and to shew that whips in Ordinary might be prepared and usefully eti - f- Ployed as transports for troops ;' but there were seize of his:l - notions, that for example, for the number of artificers employed in : the-docks, Which did not ap pear to him to have any,- bearing Whatever in the , professed object of the Noble Viscount's motions. k . Lord MELVILLE had no difficulty in avowing the object of his motion, It was to shew that at a time when we were so much at' a kiss' fortransports to convey troops, and incurring. such -heavy expetice. 'in procuring thena,•we alight, avail- ourselves of the , • . ships laid up in ordinary, which would answer the : Purpose much more effectually, ,and at a - much 'smaller expence. The Noble Earl would see the conneetion of his obje& will his last motion, se -sPeeting the number of - artificers : for r hy ascertain 'mg the numberof artificers who were en4loyed.on • new work, he would ascertain, at the same time, -, the -number of hands that might be emplciyed in re, Pairing and 'fitting out 'the ships-in •ordinarY to serve *, as transports ; for he :would contend that there was at present no necessity for building new ships, and • • that, consequently, all,the hands now employed on , new work might be turned over to the repairing the ships in ordinary to s.rve for transports. As to the ..danger of conveying such information to the enemy, the objeaion• of the. Noble Duke might be well ' founded, If the object of his motions had been to publish details respecting the. state ;of the :fortifica , halls - of our different - dock-lards .and naval de- Pots.. „ - Lord DARNLgy did not think there was...any simi larity between the object of the motion he had for merly submitted to the Reuse onn - a naval subjea • and the nature of the information now moved for. 1 - lis object was to ,prove*there was no necessity for building ships of war in the merchants' docks, and teat the Noble - Viscount had caused ships to "be built there at an enoi mous expetice. • I • Lord MELVILLE' and Earl GREY had some forther conversation respecting the objeci of the different motions,- and the conntaion of the accounts ploy 'ed f - or, with the precise- nature of their profes sed objea, after which the cidestion -was pat on the different motions, which were agreed to.---Ad journed. - . plpw . of COMMONS. MONDAY, MARCH 19. • is kiting the last 'day for receiving Private Bills, a gre4t I;buiber were brought in. On the motion of Sir J. GRAHAM, the Liver ' pool W..ter BO was read a first titbe, and 6ldered to Lead a secOnd ti;PV; ,The second raiding, of .thilloOlerlaitha wai postponed to Thursday nest.. . • CURTIS brought in the Thames Naviga gation Bill, which was 'read a first 'time, and. ordered to be read a second. . • . On the motion Of the same, the Blackfriars-bridge Toll Bill, and the St. George's-fields Iniprovement 811, were read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time. Mr. MANNIkIG brought up the Report oft the Comniittee on the London Dock.—Ordered to lie on the table.. General TARLETDN moved the first reading of the Qdmmetcial Duck ;Bill—Ordered to be read a se cond time. On theanotion of Mr. BYNG, a Sianding Or der was created, which was, that notices should be given of the introdtidion of Bills relative to the Maintenance ;and the Employment df the Poor. A, message came dowh frorn tfie.Lnrds, announc ing their Loi - dships' assent to the Mutiny Bill. NEW THEATRE. Sir JAMES S,HAWE brought up the Report of the Committee on the Petition 'of Mr. Cumberland, Mr. Curwood, and otners, stating that the petition eri had subscribed 1r500,000 1 . by transferable shares, for the erection of a New Theatre, and the business was now before the Privy Council ; ,as the parties had petitioned for a license to ereet 'the same,, and as the time had expired for the.presentiris Private:Bills, he moved that -the petitioners have until this-day three . weeks to ;prepare their Bill. Mr. Sntarci - Atvobserved, that the parties had ne- glected tier time to make out their case, and he con .side-ed the present the most extraordinary applica tion that had ever been 41:ade to the - Houe of - Com, Mons. , They had"rTOw porn% at the last hour of the, . last. day for'reZ:e.iving Private Bills, to have the tithe enlarged for Prep Ting their •Bill, ‘ Without giving any nonce to himselt or any other person having an op p'osite interest, which he 'considered an - unfair - and unjustifiable proceediog. The petition was present ed on the Bth day of Fob•u ;Ty, and they had sine that time to bring for Ward theil Bib, if they thought. fix to tally intb - ellect what he conceived 'to be art a6tof flagrant injustice; What Was.'stated in the Report was - untrue.. The Privy Council was not ap plied io - for a lieense ; "it was an appeal AO it' from , the petitioners against the: report of the Attorney And Solicitor : General, - who stated that it would he an adtof .high injustice to grant the prayer of the petite u. The parties; - in fact,' wished to have two stringtctOtheii . bow, and annealed at the'saine time to the Privy Council and the House of Commons—.•l He-wished the par-ties had acjed with a more gentle-1 ' manly Sincerity, and not have introduced the Lord Mayor and Corporation ofthe,City:of London into the business ;—they were, not interested in the con- _ tern by any means"; as -there was no intention of erecting a'Theatre in the City. ' If such a' line of conduct as they wished to pursue were sanctioned by the Legislature; the Chatter_of the. City of London itself might be shaken. The petitioners, in tac-t,, ' wanted to be incorporated; to' the injury of chow , who had suffered by the conflagration of Drily-lane Theatce., It v. , as stated by them that the stage was immoral, 314 they wished to reform ' it. 41r,0 - um.- berland wished the theatre no longer to be a place of ,-idieatuusementhe.wished to make it a sort of. a' substitute for a church or chapel. A charge of im morality came rather aWkWardly from Mr. C,.rn- . berland. How far the stage , had profited by his p_......u.......,;.4.—, a..,......401:-. ---i,i„-i......i,r,.. , . Sir J. Sti A '0; E said, With" respeCt to his using finesse ' he . assmed the Right Hot. Gentleman that he thought it his duty to,bririg - forward the petition . , . but he had no share or interest whatever in the pro- posed Theatre.l ' Mr. SHEkDAN said, he did not attribdte any thing of finesse to the 'Honourable Baronet*. '.. Mr. A. 13Rowila, . vindicated" the measure from the seventy Of . the Right Hon. Gentlethan''S remark, and described it as one of public - expediency; es sential 'under the existing circumstances of the - theatre. • It was, not to -be expected from the Right lion. Gentleman's mind, whatever might be his 'grounds of objet'' ion to the original propoSition, that be should charatierise a-mOsure, supported by the , great respeatahility of the present Petitioners, as an att of injustice and oppressiOn.. Mr. SHERIDAN' explained. • , . _The question was then 'put and agreed to. • • . Sil3. ANSTRUTHER moved - that a copy of a letter frorn - Sir Home Popham' to Lord Chatham, dated , the loth. of March, 18 lb, and relative to the Aal cheren ComMittee be laid before the House, After some observations from the Speaker; and •the-Chancellor of the Exchequer, the House went 1 into - a Committc'e to receive the letter. I LOCAL. MILITIA. The House.liaving.'beeeli resumed, Mr. - seCretery RypEe:moved, that the 48th and 49th of the: King, relating to the Local Militia, shonld be read, which were accordingly read pro, forma, by the Clerk. Mr.,Seeretary RYDER said, he rose in pursuance of the notice he had given, to Move for leave to bring in a Bill.to . amend the Local Militia Ads:— His objed, - he said, . was to remedy, as far as lie could, the errors in these Ads, and to makp such al terations as he thought would be of advantage to the country. His first objed -.was to, diminish the number of non-commissioned officers to one,fuuritt, and to reduce the number of dayktor training iNe men from. 28 days to 22, by which there would be s saving to the country of about 346,00e1. .This number of note-Colfunia,ioned officers would be ample and Ea.: ficient, and serjeants may be got to drill the men at One shillir;g a day,instead of one shilling and sixpence, which was the sum they .received at 'present. Ano ther object of his-Bill,was to permit Colitis Martial w sit, after the training, to. try those; who were - guilty of offences during the time they were called out, and reduce the number of days for calling out 'the volunteers 'from 24 days to 18;: and to make it compulsory, in 'future on.all constables to make , a return of the'deficieneies in each parish in the Au tumn. He concluded by moving for leaeptot.bring :in his Bill. '‘• Mr. Gil:Rs and-MieWHITB:IIEAD expressed a wish that the Local Militia Acts should be consolidated, and that more atteution should bp.P.l'id to the quali fications of the Officers. , ' Mr. WINDI:AISI was of opinion that the meas.= was not only useless but iMpractu,:able. Mr. Gmes rose merely to recienoielid as a pre ferblu measure tui;oeselidate ail the Acts into oue. He concluded by advertind several errors in tiii Jaws as they now exist. Mr. AbBINGTOI4I rose to support the suggestion of the Hon. Member, and after . an observation •from . -Mr. Whitbread, relative, to The facility by which the .qualificatlons of Local Milita Officers . evaded, Mr—Secretary RYDER though. it, would .be more advisable. to postpone the consolidation of the Acts to another Session. . - . The qnestion being put,-leave Was granted, Mr. WHITBREAD requested Mr. Sheridan to postpone his motion relative to the conduct of Mi-• piste's. Mr. SHERIDAN agreed; and gave notice that he would on Friday next bring forward his Motion, re= lative to the Betichers of Lincoln's-.stns TheComMittee on, the Embezzlement Bill was postponed to Thursday next. Mr. H. THOhNTON moved, that the account of the Scotch Pension Lists, from Jan. 1808 to' Jan-1809 be laid before the House:—Ordered-. • Mr. W. - POLE moved, ".that the &Porton' the petititiun of Mr. Wm. Oakley; relative to Ardglass Harbour, should be referred to the Committee ,of Supply." - Sir JOHN NEWPORT approved of. ere&ing a pier at Ardglass, but coMplained of-somesMisappliaation of public money, voted for a similar- building at- Dundrum. • . Mr. WELLESLEY :POLE said, that the Iliinourable Baronet had relieved him 'from the nec,:ssity ofsay ing any thing . in .defence -- .of the work at Ardglass; by expressing his appruhition of that measure. With resped to the work undertaken at Newcastle; in bundram• Bay, for which a sum had ben voted two years ago, he begged so state, that he had had_ nothing . to do with the expenditure of that money., The "sum granted was 70001. whkh was to be ex-. pended under the direMion of. the Lord tieutenant, and an agreement had been entered into with the ,proprietor of that place (Lord Atinesley). to - corn , plete the pier within a given time, (the 26th of this month):under - a penalty .of -12;0001. The Hon. Baronet, he supposed, would be satisfied when he was informed, that•he (Mr. Pole) had this morning written to Ireland to giye dirediou that au inquiry. itiouid be made, whether the works were Cninplated or not, and if they mere not, and no .sufficient rea son given /for the delay, that the penalty shOuld be be levied. . . -Pots's motion was agreed to., , _ The Royal Mutiny, and . Salt Duty_ Bills, _were read a third time, and passed. RESosLUTIONS OF FINANCE. . Fr. MARTIN moved that the Reports of the .nanee . Committeeshould be entered as read, and that the House should resolve itself into a Committee thereon. -The Motion being put and carried, the House re- . solved its 4 into a Committee of the whole House aceordinety.. • - Mt. MARTIN then • rose to submit to the Muse the resolutions of which he had given •notice. He , apefehended \ there would, be no oppositiOn to the' principle'-Of the motion; as every Gentleman Must' feel and admit the necessity of "adopting an economi cal line of conduct. The present - hoht.ical 'Cireum.: stances of the country, the operations of the enemy being :so stedfasily directed again,t our financial prosperity, and the prayers and Wkee:s 'of _*an over-burdened people for same amelioration of their sufferings, had no address been. presented to the King,. and bad no recommendation been re ceived from the CrOwn on the subjed, were suf ficient to'inipre,s on Gentlen - ien's minds the neces sity of curtailing the eipences of the country, and of abolishing sinecures as fat- its might be. - The atuoiarit of the sums expended annually on sinecures he be lieved amounted t 0 .1,522,0001, '• That a Many of the items of that rthmense account, the greater part of • them indeed were such as could not beobjeded to he acknowledged, but,,tixat, very . argunient which _proved that the greater part 01 them were not: - to be objea - ted to, and consequently not to be done away furnished an additional argument in favour of eco nomy, from the expence which Was - absolutely neces sary being so very great. In tile report nothing-bad been said of the Duchy df Lancaster, which though reckoned to be worth . but 40001: annually in reve . nue, was worth 40,00'31. in patronage'; the whole of . whiCh the Committee must see was raised by dired_ taxes on the Public, or by tees which were. in them selves taxes. The examination of the estimates laid before that House was, he owned, much tore sis than formerly. He wished to call 'the attention of Gentlemen. to two 'officei, the one that off-Treasurer of the Ordnance, the 'other that' of Paymaster of the, Marines. Had 'due attention bein paid to the report . of the Committee in 1796, Whi , ch , stated those offit.,,sea to be ndlonier necessary, the inconveniences arising from the laic , , defalcation iu the last mentioned Office might never have been known. Though 'he did net expect the principle of his motion would be opposed ileapprelienJed the forma of his resolutions would be likely to cause some dvbate, as they differed in some instances materially from those of the Right. Honourable Gentleman opppOsite, and he, under stood an 'Honourable Gentleman below him intend ed to move an amendment upon both; His, how ever, were so generaly'ivorded, that he thought he Shohld be able to support the sUggestions of the Hon. Member for inaking them more etfcctive. Happy he Was that that Hon. Gentleman took an 06ti've part in the business, as the country had already derived en much benefit from his exertions. He doubted not but most of his resolutions would meet with his (Mr.. Martin's) most • hearty *concurrence.--Much, as he had stated on a former occasion, had.been done, but be regretted 'that • the report's of former Cotu r • mittees. had not -been - acted upon. That of 1796 called their attention to the abolition of sinecures in the Law, but not one step had ever been taken in 'consequence of that recornmendation. Every sinecure office, in Law ox Equity,•had - since :that tine been 'again and again filled' up and granted in revers_ ion. The salaries of Judges bad since been increased, and ' pensions had been granted to.retiring Judges. "Ihis, he did not say was improper; but while their wel-' fare was thus.consulted, that of the country ought not to have been overlOoked.. Ministers-tnight IXobi time to time have stipulated with the persons thus provlded for for apart of their patronage. And thus, attending to - the suggestions of the Committee of t796,:a fund rnightliavebeen raised fuily adequate to pay the pensions-of retiringJudgeS, &c. The place of Chief -Cierk of the King's Bench was so held - by . - the Judges, that froa the iteitoration at Charles 149 Second,, th6ro . 114ei been buf five via,ancies., , . . . Offiee wai a sort of - lOtt4' ticket for. the bz!nefii of the 3ndgei. He was Of . , oi,ininp that piitToilaii ' Might be used to form aiielir lurid Oat of which,Pen sions of retiring Judges, 'and the new saris girVi to persons hBlding the bakes, might be paid Viiitn out imposing, arty additional burden 'oh' tii6 plik)Li Anolher part of the public Expenditure to tiviiidi he • would cell the - atte'ntioil of the COntmil tee; w a s that conneCtedli the influ'ence_pf the Cr iwn: He kne* that an Hon. Gentlernatt opposite (air. Ro-e) had en deivi;ored to pr ove hv flaenee Of the CI o‘Vir va3hot . greater than at that trternorable period; wlie,ri Mt Dun- rues Resolutions were brought ftm'waidt; ~ at he (Mr: Martin) would prove, that the influence of the Crown bad most enbrwously increased since that Lane. Look at. the diffetent cStabli,hments; and - , - take them . colleklivety . or iduatiy - , it, Inuit ,he seen - that the influence of the Crown had gre•aq in . creased. At the - period to which he'lind alls“ted, the whole of the public debt amounted to] 44 ) (43,4 1 41 : .the annual interest of . Tr was hardly necessary for him to. state; ; that the' amount of the National. Debt was stated-to be, ..or he Mh of -January, 784,552,0001. the interest of which was 29,992, , 561. haVing increSsed,fo 4 or 5 ilhei the amount of whiit it was - Whea_ Mr.,buil resolutions. Were agreed to. • Our •artny_esta blishment qt that time, whert• we were engaged in a WA/ w,itn France, Spain, Holland, and America, bad. 8,57 Officers on the Staff. Now.cheir nutbber had )1' 11,. e ! t'!' ols 41:4 liii 11))i,! s no z[ 13 0 gc)o , 73h.:11' Gr,.' I[3ol' l !t~!ij~ :'. I' SW" CcICI Lit;t:t: ter E~; ot:t1- _si l l lil~ +' 1;;.; ; f. It C= :Lit viero ps ill mos by ide Atha :orn- al re, n 0 E irate 'ad here were 06Id ; not that e.e.p may idati have ia ACC' 1. 110 ~~tY `~~Q~ Drd lucid Pl 3" t at jrd, I,liep. :i3Ol or icse lost rvo for of SV 4 • , - been augmented to 2080. It *as only necesszqy; to cbturast the one with the other, to see how f2ireatly tire influence of tire Ciown Lad - increased. Tile penditure of the alnty was then 6,5,p9,0801. ;' no‘s> the amount of it was i g;432,0001. Hon. Ge9f, Ilenriap then went *on to obittrast•tfre ordndoce" esii- . . mates and naval' expenditure of that period-w.an those of 'the : present, The funding of , the Exche que't Bills was another, source of the_ i.aeleat.ingr in-; - fruence of the Crown. He would shew the - Right HOnburable Gentleman that the influence of tki4 - QrtiWn was not so small -as he had imag,ined.- . -- ' Elpences had , been mated it was to be -irervient. tiered since that period. T,hellarracksyihe'lransport .Office, - and the'Board of Conti-out, of • which nothing__ had been said- by the. Right Hon.,Gentlemao, all addedto. the, influence of the Crown, though, the the Members of the latrer - (who' had Mlle to do hilt, to receive their salaries) were paid by the East India - Company.. The four and a- half per cents.. which were in the tittle of Queen Ann appropriated to-the . repairing of fortifications, ,had since been applied to, the,paying of pensions granted subsequent to that of the fate Duke of Gloucester.' The pension of- the 'Duke of GlpucesteY,. though nothing appeared to warrant a belief - that. the tUnd- was in, to answer the calls made oti - it; had,been Thin s 4terred to ‘ the 'Consolidated fund, and thus a new - vacancy %wig, -, . •, rivde for patronage, .w.hicli 'lad 'sinee been 7retty • ',. well filled tap:''' He iia , l nothing to' say_ against • those. to wlitimifthe . tivnsios were granted. He objected,to,•the ,principle, - as adding to the it,tlu etice ref the Crown. Pensions. in the grant 'of the `Crown, agreeable tojVr. Burke's Bill, should {tot exceed 60, or at most '90 ; 0001. ; but t-he patron age of the Crown was increased by a Subterfue. - - A, larger ptinSiori _than - ,12.001. - was not to be'. - granted by the 'Crown. If - more were ,deserved, the party should be sent to Parliament- to -recelyt the, reward of his services: PenS'otis 'should ever ' be under the eye, of PailiaMent; that they - might always be liable •to lie-withheld. '.Doubtless• that. power would -never- b. -: e x et- ciA Iri . iviilloOt ~j,:t close. Ili the_ view he -took of-the sittljeet no - great reduction could at present.be made, - but it was not less. the duty of , the Ilonie'fo Lok into the subleCit, and effea *what they could. He hoped --a* sipAl -saving on this head WoOld only be a prelude to a . general saving in, every ,department. , _ Ttiese made,' though individually, small, would - ccliatively be found of importance.. ,He should feel happy to con cur With the Right Hon. Gentleman where he coulth• The ist'atid 2d he-should adopt, and the Bd'and4th he only obje&ed to, as they went-to legalize that patronage to which -he was averse;' Ire- however, thought there would be no diaculty in modifying them db that he could give it his support. The 6th was that no pension shouictbe granted thin the sale of. old stores, but that a fluid should thence Le' formed for the' benefit of'•the 'navy:- The 7th 'agreed with his fifth, wli.ch went tat,. enact that no minister at a foreign Court .should-reteive More than .20001: per annum. That he thought - was quite sot, •ficient. If 20001, was to be a maximum, he thought ' Ithe Office of 'Registrar of the Admiralty deinande,d their immediate attention: It they wanted a pre-_ cedent for such- interference he would -tannish them - with one in the reduction of the Auditors of the Im-• . press in acertain degree. The Audit'ors and Tellers, -" of the Excheotiei in .1780, were very near being re-i s duced in asirnilAr way, a - niotionto that-effect, hay.: ing only a: majority of five against it. .'He conclud ed byMovingthlat his own should be read first, ..but • at the- same time stating it to be'his intention to cOn. - cur with the two first of the Right-Hon. Gentlemanoppbsite. - . _ The first Resolution recommending economy, &c. was theta . Put.. •‘,- , , ' ••• , . Mr." Rose observed that what he had stated with respea .to the savings made in the last - 20 or 25 - 'ears, was little more than an enlargement of what • he had before stated, in that. House. He h been accused of giving,tr unfair statement, such was not. i his ntention;and e was uncenscious'of having done so.Hedid not contradid the statements oftbeHon: Gentleinan, but he Was not aware:.of' the - influ'ence of the. Crewn"having increased as he OWL airtin) ' # conceived It had. He was surprised 'a, 'short time :back at seeing how small a number of olhcers wee employed to coiled the taxes". There wan as addition of 59tuill;ons to the revende, and taking away ti:e customs,v - vhich.did not produce more than' 8 of them, -. a new,Otfice.could'scarcely be found, and not more ' .than au,,40, - or 50 additional officers, and many of •, those who had their situations given idcoinpensition. ; 'With respe& to the increase of the 5 tatiofthearaly, , •. he had not. in -the oourAe of -1.7 or 1 8 years Ihown of more than 50 Commisstons having been give ! ), Tho - Hon. Gentletnan had said, that be, iii h • pamphlet_ had not mentioned: the - Barrack, the Ti\nisport Of - fice, nor the Board of Controul.. He had gone into a detail on those subjeas. He hoped when the Hon. Gentleman had read his pamphlet that he would do him justice, and, acknowledge that he had not shut . his eyes on them. With respea to the 1.4 per cent. - • duties, they fell so low at one time, that tli..y 'were . insutfiOent for several years to p 4 ), the , pensions to